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August 2002, Vol. 84, No. 3, Pages 541-551
Posted Online March 13, 2006.
(doi:10.1162/003465302320259538)
© 2002 President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reexamining the Empirical Evidence for an Environmental Kuznets Curve William T. HarbaughUniversity of Oregon and NBER Arik LevinsonGeorgetown University and NBER David Molloy WilsonOregon Social Learning Center
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